ACCRA, June 22 (Reuters) - The yield on Ghana's 91-day treasury bill dipped to 13.32 percent at an auction on Friday, compared with 13.33 percent at the last sale on June 18, the central bank said.

YAMOUSSOUKRO, Ivory Coast, June 22 (Reuters) - Top cocoa producer Ivory Coast could grind 50 percent of its current output locally by 2022, boosted by fiscal measures and incentives given to companies in the sector, the deputy head of the Coffee Cocoa Council (CCC) marketing board said on Friday.

YAMOUSSOUKRO, IVORY COAST, June 22 (Reuters) - Top cocoa producer Ivory Coast could grind 50 percent of its current output locally by 2022, boosted by fiscal measures and incentives given to companies in the sector, the deputy head of the Coffee Cocoa Council (CCC) marketing board said on Friday.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's government is considering layoffs and early retirement packages for staff in the public sector to avoid breaking its pledge to cut spending after unions clinched above-inflation wage increases, the Treasury said on Friday.

TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisia on Friday arrested the main organiser of a migrant smuggling operation after at least 87 people drowned when their boat sank off the southern coast this month, the government said.

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - South Sudan offered to allow a rebel representative to join its government on Friday, but ruled out Riek Machar, saying they had "had enough" of the rebel leader after five years of civil war.

ABIDJAN, June 22 (Reuters) - Ivory Cocoa Products (ICP) and Eurofind Group plan to begin cocoa grinding at a new 32,000 tonne plant near Ivory Coast's main city of Abidjan by 2019, with capacity doubling by 2021, ICP's Managing Director Ismael Al Khalil told Reuters on Friday.

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - South Sudan offered to allow a rebel representative to join its government on Friday, but ruled out rebel leader Riek Machar, saying they had "had enough" of the man after five years of war against his group.

ABIDJAN, June 22 (Reuters) - Ivory Cocoa Products (ICP) and Eurofind Group plan to begin cocoa grinding at a new 32,000 tonne plant near Ivory Coast's main city of Abidjan by 2019, with capacity doubling by 2021, ICP's Managing Director Ismael Al Khalil told Reuters on Friday.

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) - Congolese opposition leader Jean-Pierre Bemba, whose war crimes convictions were quashed last month, is expected to return to Congo next month for a party congress to select a candidate for December's presidential vote, a party spokesman said on Friday.

ANSE AUX PINS, Seychelles (Reuters) - Seychelles parliament will not ratify a pact allowing India to build naval facilities on one of the archipelago’s islands, a top foreign affairs ministry official said on Friday.

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A new round of talks between South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar will take place next week in the Sudanese capital, the Sudanese government said on Friday.

TRIPOLI/GENEVA (Reuters) - Survivors have reported that about 220 migrants drowned off the coast of Libya in the last few days while trying to reach Europe, putting the death toll this year on that route to more than 1,000, the United Nations said on Thursday.

KAMPALA (Reuters) - A fight erupted in a refugee camp in Uganda during a World Cup soccer match and four people were killed, police said, adding they have arrested 15 refugees from South Sudan in connection with the bloodshed.